NVIDIA Quadro FX 500: specs and benchmarks

Summary

NVIDIA started Quadro FX 500 sales 21 May 2003. This is a Rankine architecture desktop card based on 150 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 128 MB of DDR memory clocked at 0.24 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 7.68 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via AGP 8x interface.

Primary details

Some basic facts about Quadro FX 500: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Architecture	Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code name	NV34 A1
Market segment	Workstation
Release date	21 May 2003 (21 year ago)

Detailed specifications

Quadro FX 500's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Quadro FX 500's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Core clock speed	270 MHz	of 2800 MHz (Playstation 5 Pro GPU)
Number of transistors	45 million	of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm	of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Texture fill rate	1.080	of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
ROPs	4	of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs	4	of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Quadro FX 500 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

Interface	AGP 8x
Width	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Quadro FX 500: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory type	DDR
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB	of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width	128 Bit	of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	240 MHz	of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth	7.68 GB/s	of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Quadro FX 500. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x VGA

API compatibility

APIs supported by Quadro FX 500, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	9.0a
OpenGL	1.5 (2.1)	of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090)
OpenCL	N/A
Vulkan	N/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Quadro FX 500. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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